A total of 35 solos for soprano recorder (advanced) or flute (intermediate). Introduction includes hints for performance in school or church, use with a sound system, fingering chart for recorder high notes, and notes regarding special techniques, such as double tonguing, vibrato and recorder glissando. Final pages are a unique section of carol-specific historical notes, including Internet addresses. Includes all favorite Christmas carols as well as gems from The Oxford Book of Carols. Ideal for use in church services and Christmas-season concerts, or with carolers. These instrumental solos give new meanings to age-old expressions of the Christmas spirit.

 A Virgin Most Pure        
 Angels We Have Heard on High        
 Away in a Manger      
 Away in a Manger       
 Boar's Head Carol        
 Deck the Halls        
 Earth With Joy This Day Doth Ring        
 Forest Green        
 God Rest You Merry Gentlemen        
 Good King Wenceslas        
 Greensleeves        
 Hark! The Herald Angels Sing       
 Here We Come A-Wassailing        
 Il est ne        
 In Dulci Jubilo        
 In the Bleak Midwinter    
 It Came Upon the Midnight Clear    
 Jingle Bells     
 Joy to the World        
 Lo, How a Rose E'er Blooming        
 O Come, All Ye Faithful        
 O Little Town of Bethlehem    
 O Tannenbaum        
 Once in Royal David's City       
 Personent Hodie    
 Puer Nobis Nascitur    
 Silent Night        
 Star in the East        
 The First Noel        
 The Holly and the Ivy        
 There's a Song in the Air     
 This is the Truth Sent From Above        
 Une Jeune Pucelle        
 Venite Adoremus        
 We Three Kings